RE: The Ups and Downs of Curation Trails

I had followed a trail for a while, but I stopped in mid 2022, and went fully manual voting. I kept that up until late last year when my health was shit and I was in and out of surgeries/recoveries and barely on. At the time I had a meager but much better than now pool of HP, and I wanted to make sure some key folks I enjoyed got votes... so I set up auto-voting for them (which you likely noticed as you're on that list). It's not a trail, but it does let me ensure that a few folks who always make good stuff don't get missed in the crazy real-life schedule I now keep running two kids to skating rinks and taking care of our 4 month old.

When I started the auto-votes I had been pretty sure I'd turn them off again by summer of this year, but with the new baby, I've had to fight for time to pop down and read even a few posts. (As evidenced by it being almost midnight here and I'm only now getting to look at any of my devices)

I think it'll still end up being temporary, it'll just stick around a bit longer than I'd hoped. I vastly prefer fully manual voting. I don't like realizing days later that I voted for something and I missed it when it was new. I don't think there's anything wrong with trails or specific fan-votes, but for me, personally, I can't freaking wait to get back to being around more for both reading, and writing.